Donald Sutherland spent his early years on stage in Britain, which may have come in handy for his latest role as Jane Austen's Mr Bennet. But get him going and it's the Hollywood years he yarns about: the stars unbuttoned, the antiwar protests ... and that scene in Don't Look Now. Interview by John Patterson.

It is appropriate that Fletcher Prouty, who has died of organ failure following stomach surgery at the age of 84, will best be remembered as the model for the mysterious Colonel X, played by Donald Sutherland, in Oliver Stone's film JFK.